On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 11:40:58AM -0800, Bill Janssen wrote:
> Right now the distiller doesn't do <SUB> or <SUP> -- it just ignores
> them.  I could translate <SUB> to <SMALL>, I guess, but I'm not sure
> what to do with <SUP>.  We could add a couple of font styles to
> address them.  Though this is really about two things, the font and
> the baseline.

It wouldn't be difficult for the viewer to support something like
this. Infact, rather than translating the font to something, a better
way may be to literally add <sub><sup> equivilant calls to the pdb
database format.

Leave it to the viewer to translate. It shouldn't be difficult because
all you're doing is including a vertical offset of the text. Easy to
handle, I think.

> A simple fix would be for the distiller to enclose them in brackets
> and braces.

I think for something like this it should be done right. I'd volunteer
to handle the viewer code, if someone can modify the parser. I don't
speak python :)

-- 
Adam McDaniel
Array.org
Calgary, AB, Canada

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